tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37279667117497349862024-03-12T17:15:54.081-07:00NG GossipsKnowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on itUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3727966711749734986.post-21184555907386631592014-04-25T00:15:00.001-07:002014-04-25T00:15:59.056-07:00Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg AddressIt had been 87 years since the Declaration of Independence was written at the beginning of the American Revolution. November 19, 1883 stood in the midst of the American Civil War, four and a half months after the bloody Union victory in Gettysburg.
President Abraham Lincoln had been invited by Judge David Willis by letter to offer remarks to close the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3727966711749734986.post-53636273421339271892014-04-25T00:05:00.000-07:002014-04-25T00:05:38.140-07:00Advice to Youth, by Mark TwainNovelist Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is one of America's great humorists and social critics. In "Advice to Youth," a talk he delivered to a group of young girls, Twain turns the conventional moral lecture on its head.
Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3727966711749734986.post-27595311872565077552014-01-11T15:07:00.001-08:002014-01-11T15:07:29.351-08:00Wear A Sunscreen - Mary Schmich (1997)
Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get
out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young
people who'd rather be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be
invited to sow our words of wisdom among an audience of caps and gowns,
but there's no reason we can't entertain Unknownnoreply@blogger.com